Religio-Political Heavyweight: Madani has served as Secretary General of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, or Organization of Indian Scholars–one of the most prominent Islamic organizations in India. He has been outspoken in his opposition to the misuse of the term jihad as a tool of terrorism in India. Following fatal bomb blasts in 2008, he and others of the Darul Uloom Deoband institution hosted events condemning terrorism as inherently un-Islamic.

Defender of the Faith: As a respected political leader and Islamic scholar of India, Madani represented the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and the esteemed community of scholars from Deoband when he addressed the Pakistani government, and Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik in particular, in an open letter regarding the commissioner’s remarks in December 2008 at the UN Security Council about terrorism stemming from ‘mullas in Deoband’. Maulana Madani is also a strong opponent of government interference in the madrassa system.

"In the past 10 years (since the 2002 Gujarat riots), more than 48 communal clashes have occurred in Rajasthan while 102 have been reported in the past one-and-a-half years in Uttar Pradesh. Please tell me, who is right and who is wrong?," Madani, ...

Maulana Mahmood Madani, who heads the Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind, said in a TV interview today, "In the next election, political parties should not try to seek our votes by showing fear of someone, on a negative plank." Parties, he said, must instead outline ...

Maulana Mahmood Madani, the general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, India's largest Muslim organization, emphatically rejects the politics of Mr. Modi. But last month he publicly warned, “to not take the Muslims for granted and hope that out of ...

New Delhi: The general secretary of Jamiat Ulema Hind, Maulana Mahmood Madani has indirectly praised Narendra Modi by saying that there are more Muslim youths in the jails of Maharashtra than in Gujarat, and more communal riots have taken place in ...

Mumbai: All India Secular Forum (AISF) has reacted strongly to Maulana Mahmood Madani's statement that Congress is creating the fear of Modi to get Muslim votes. In the statement issued yesterday Ram Puniyani of AISF said that Maulana's statement ...

TWO media-savvy Muslim clerics have covertly offered their support to Narendra Modi. Maulana Mehmood Madani represents a faction of the Sunni Jamiatul Ulema-i-Hind. Maulana Kalbe Sadiq speaks for a section of India's Shias. There are several other ...and more »

Guwahati: Extremely peeved by the growing proximity of Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind General Secretary Maulana Mahmood A. Madani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Assam CM Tarun Gogoi said that the nexus is ominous and the people of the country ...

However, in an interview to a Hindi TV channel, the general secretary of Jamiat Ulema Hind, Maulana Mahmood Madani had a different take. This take will surely put all the secular parties to shame and make them run for cover. Madani after openly ...

JAIPUR: Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind chief Syed Mehmood Madani on Monday accused the Congress party of creating a Modi bogey to spook the Muslim voters into backing the party in the 2014 election. He asked Muslims not to be scared of the ... The statement ...